page_title: Chicherin House
section_title: Elisseeff House
hierarchical_section_title: Chicherin House / Elisseeff House
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. St. Petersburg, Newski-Prospekt Zentralbild St. Petersburg, Rußland Blick auf den Newski-Prospekt, eine der Hauptstraßen der Stadt. Im Hintergrund die Admiralität. Aufnahme 1906 [Scherl Bilderdienst] Information added by Wikimedia users. English: Nevsky Prospekt (street) in Saint Petersburg (Imperial Russia). Vista of street from the Politseisky Bridge to the Main Admiralty building. Chicherin House facade on left side. Summer 1901 photograph by Karl Bulla. Русский: Санкт-Петербург. Невский проспект. Перспектива Невского проспекта от Полицейского моста к Главному Адмиралтейству. Лето 1901 года. Français&#160;: Saint-Pétersbourg. Perspective Nevski.
context_page_description: Chichrerin House was a historical landmark building located at Nevsky Prospekt 15 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also known as Kosikovsky House, Elisseeff House and Barrikada cinema theater.
context_section_description: In 1858 the property was acquired by the Elisseeff brothers - two sons of the merchant Elisseeff - the founder of the Elisseeff Trading House. From 1858 to 1870 the building was reconstructed under the project of Nikolai Grebenka. The shape of windows facing Nevsky Prospekt was partially changed, and new section was built on the Moyka side of the building.
  The Elisseeff brothers were patrons of the arts, and collectors. All Auguste Rodin's sculptures which are in the Hermitage Museum collection were first collected by the Elisseeff family. In 1860 the Elisseeffs opened a 'Salon' in the house, which existed until 1914. Honorable members of the assembly included Pyotr Vyazemsky, Faddei Bulgarin and others. Here, the writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin read their works. In 1886 the Elisseeff House hosted the premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina.
  In January 1862, count Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko founded a chess club in the Elisseeff House. Club members included Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Dmitri Mendeleev. However, the police started to get reports, that club members engage in political discussions about constitution and revolution, Chernyshevsky makes speeches, and there is no playing chess. In March of the same year police closed the club.
caption: 1906
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